Grant Able - Oncology Medical Consultant¶

Age: 57

Skills: Cancer specialist physician working in a research hospital.

Scope: Oncology department.

Job:

• Grant is a medical consultant. He is a deep expert in the treatment of cancer and is responsible for a number of advances in the treatment of Leukemia.

Thinks/Feels:

• Feels overwhelmed by the amount of information he has to assimilate and come to a conclusion on to progress his research.

Hears:

• Many opinions on the correct approach from drug companies, colleagues and the patients themselves who have been reading the Internet.

Says/Does:

• Grant is deeply committed to his professional work, spending his spare time investigating possible factors that could improve the survival rate of his patients.

Sees:

• Grant sees great improvement in the understanding of cancer, but also many treatments that have little effect.
• He has yet to find an IT tool that helps him in his work.

Top challenges:

• Correlating and collaborating on the evidence he is collecting with those of other researchers.

Desired Outcome:

• He is contributing to a dynamic and evolving body of knowledge about cancer treatment that provides easy access to the information he needs.

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